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From: Daniel <me@sc1f1dan.com>
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Impressed with the ingenuity of gopher creators out there, I decided to
give it a go. A source of inspiration is gopherpedia.com. A tool I use
daily, absolutely love it!

And after reading his phlog post about it, I saw that he created a proxy
and wrote code to scrape the data from wikipedia and output to a format
compatible with gopher.. Fair enough.

I thought it was too much work. Why not just run the script locally and
use the wikimedia api? Right?

So I started learning python and working through parsing the json data
for wiktionary. The goal: build a gopher interface to wiktionary - a
sister site, of sorts, for gopherpedia. Then, it dawned on me this
morning that my approach could possibly be wrong. How would I trigger
a script to run from a gopher page? I don't know, so I come here.

Do the good people concur with my opinion? Or is there a way I can do
it the way I envision? Right now, I'm using python and, at this
point, my script is pretty close. A query will search, filter, then
format the output to standard ascii. But, i'm afraid that the work
I've done is useless.

Here's the flow:

User goes to gopherict.com > word lookup > type word > press enter >
script executes query to wiktionary.org > downloads and filters >
creates gopher page of resulting definition > user displays

I hope you all have good news for me.

Daniel